Resources
Resource Sites & Services
The following are very helpful, even if we do not agree with 100% of their approach
Teach Like a Champion (pedagogical techniques)
Love and Logic (classroom management)
Crucial Conversations (a guide to difficult & important conversations) (if available, we prefer their 2nd edition; also, they provide a full course).
Podcasts
Further Reading
Teaching and Education Specific
The Seven Laws of Teaching by John Milton Gregory
Tried & True: A Primer on Sound Pedagogy by Daniel B. Coupland (Hillsdale)
Why Don’t Students Like School by Daniel Willingham
Make It Stick: The Science of Successful Learning by Peter Brown, Henry Roediger, and Mark McDaniel
Teach like a Champion by Doug Lemov
Teaching with Love and Logic by Jim and Charles Fay
Building Thinking Classrooms in Mathematics by Peter Liljedahl
“The Parthenon and the Optative” essay by C.S. Lewis
Philosophical Foundations
Meno by Plato
On the Teacher by St. Augustine
De Veritate, “On the Teacher,” Question 11 by St. Thomas Aquinas
“Letter to His Children’s Tutor, William Gunnell” by St. Thomas More
The Idea of a University by John Henry Newman
Christian Pedagogy by Bl. Basil Moreau
Interior Freedom by Jacque Philippe
“The Lost Tools of Learning” essay by Dorothy Sayers
“Screwtape Proposes a Toast” essay by C.S. Lewis
Modern Insights
Atomic Habits by James Clear
Anxious Generation by Jonathon Haidt
Crucial Conversations by Joseph Grenny, et al.
Continuing Education and Degrees
Masters Programs ideal for an aspiring teacher who lacks a Liberal Arts education: There are assuredly many more programs we should recommend. We happen to be both familiar with and confident in the following:
Hillsdale College, Graduate School of Classical Education
St. John’s College of Annapolis, Masters In Liberal Arts
University of Dallas, Master’s in Classical Education Program
University of St. Thomas, Graduate Certificate in Mission and Culture of Catholic Culture